WaPo Newspeak about Pinochet
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2006 10:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for December 13th, 2006
Social unrest in China
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2006 00:23 - Category: Unfiled ;
Unrest and riots in China have gotten serious enough that party newspapers are acknowledging they are happening and that reforms are needed to end the increasing disparity between rich and poor.
American Leftist has more.
Alvin Toffler once said he thought China would eventually split into separate countries, which seemed a crazy idea at the time, but maybe not…
Western China is semi-arid desert and has little in common with Beijing ethnically, culturally, or anything else. And that’s where much of the unrest is.
Spamming as mental illness
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2006 00:15 - Category: Unfiled ;
Spammers pay large amounts of money to have their millions of mostly unreadable spams sent out. So what’s the payoff to them, especially considering the risk?
Maybe they’re compulsive gamblers
I believe the leaders of the gangs you can hire to do spam runs are in it for the money. But the people paying them for most of the spam runs have some mental disorder. There’s nothing rational about it. And the spammers-for-hire know it and exploit the illness.
More global warming portents
Bob Morris @ Dec 13th 2006 00:07 - Category: Climate change ;
This from US researchers, who say most Arctic ice will be gone by 2040 with the tipping point coming in 2025. Rumors that Dubya said the researchers were “terrorists who hate freedom” are probably untrue.
Russia is getting warmer, thus “Siberia in that case will become the world’s granary and Russia will be a clear winner.” (I can see capitalists exulting in the chance to make a fast buck by importing Siberian grain even as their vacation beach homes flood.)
